It is impossible to fathom how on earth this project has got as far as it has. It does not matter which foreign government is involved in our power generation industry because none are welcome, whether they be French, Chinese or whoever. If a government is to be involved, and this Blog believes it should be, it must be our own. We do have our own government and and have just had a referendum which talked a lot about sovereignty. Well let us be plain, if your strategic services and industries are in the hands of foreign governments you can kiss goodbye to rational interpretations of sovereignty.
The way ahead is clear. The UK government has to fund the project, nobody else; it has to own the power station, nobody else; it has to change to a tested design known to work (why do we even have to specify this?) and it can then employ whatever expertise it needs form across the world to do the hard lifting, including French, Chines, American or whoever has something to offer which we need, which because of past negligence is most of it. But we retain control of the computer systems and GCHQ superintends their capacity to withstand any hacking attack.
We can only hope that Prime Minister May will get a grip of this. No wonder the Cameron/Osborne gang was fired.